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Google Prototypes Rooms for Gemini Enterprise With Goals and Playbooks

August 31, 2026
Artificial Intelligence
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TestingCatalog has found references to a prototype feature called Rooms in recent Gemini Enterprise builds — shared workspaces where teams collaborate with colleagues and with Gemini around one objective. Creating a Room means defining a goal, a playbook describing how Gemini should operate, and a knowledge base of connected files. This piece covers what the leak shows, how Rooms extends the Projects feature announced at Cloud Next 2026, how it compares with ChatGPT shared projects, Claude Projects and Copilot Pages, current Gemini Enterprise pricing, and what businesses should prepare while the feature is still an unannounced prototype.

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Google Brings Trip-Planning Features to Search’s AI Mode

August 27, 2026
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Google has added flight price tracking, conversational hotel booking and miles-and-points pricing to AI Mode, the conversational surface inside Search. Announced on 27 August 2026, the three features complete a nine-month build that started with the Canvas itinerary panel in November 2025 and turns AI Mode from a place where you research a trip into a place where you arrange one. The rollout is far more uneven than the headline suggests: price tracking reaches more than 180 countries and the points display is global, but hotel booking is live in a single country, in English, with ten named partners including Booking.com, Expedia, Marriott and Hilton. This breakdown covers exactly what shipped, where each feature actually works, what Google’s own usage data says about why travel was the obvious target, and what the shift does to the travel websites that used to be the destination.